Dear Members,

I am pleased to attach the Notice of Meeting for the 2019 Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) of Goalball UK and related documents. The AGM will be held on Saturday 29 June 2019 at English Institute Of Sport, Coleridge Road, Sheffield, S9 5DA. Registration will be from 9.30am and the AGM will start at 10am

If you will not be attending, you may wish to appoint a proxy to vote on the resolutions to be put to the members on your behalf by completing and returning the attached form of proxy. In each case notice of your appointment of a proxy should reach the Company Secretary at the following address: c/o Mark Winder, Goalball UK, English Institute of Sport Sheffield, Coleridge Road, Sheffield, S9 5DA by no later than 11:00 on 27 June 2019.

An explanation of each of the resolutions to be proposed is set out below. They will all be proposed as ordinary resolutions. Voting at the AGM will be by way of a show of hands with each member and each proxy form having one vote.

Resolution 1 (report and accounts 2019)

These Goalball UK annual trustees’ and auditors’ reports and audited accounts are for the year ended 31 March 2019.

Resolutions 2 and 3 (reappointment and remuneration of auditor)

At each general meeting at which accounts are laid before the members, the Company is required to appoint an auditor to serve until the next such meeting. Clarkson Hyde were appointed by the Board to carry out the audit of the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2019 and have agreed to continue as the Company’s auditor in respect of the financial year ending 31 March 2020.

Recommendation

The trustees consider that the resolutions contained in the AGM notice and to be proposed at the AGM are in the best interests of the Company and members as a whole and recommend that you vote in favour of them. The trustees intend to vote in favour of these resolutions.

Please follow the links below for the AGM Pack 2019, which includes information on how to vote via proxy, and the final draft of accounts for approval for the 2018/19 financial year.

Yours sincerely

John Grosvenor, Chair

For and on behalf of the Board of Trustees of Goalball UK

AGM Pack 2019

Final draft accounts for approval Goalball UK 2018-9